14 August 2014

August Newsletter

August is a quiet month at Aro Ling Buddhist Centre, with only the regular
Tuesday night meditation group on the schedule. Please do come along. - beginner or experienced - everyone is welcome. We will also continue to
be open as often as possible on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays during
the day, depending on the availability of a volunteer to staff the
centre. If you want to call in to browse the library, chat or practise,
please phone to check we are open or look for the ‘open’ sign in the
window if you are in Whitchurch.

In September our Autumn Programme will begin:

Courses:

Vajra
Romance – the
intrinsically enlightened nature of romance

Thursdays,
5 week course, 19:00
– 20:30, 25 Sept
– 23 Oct, £25

Vajra Romance reveals romantic love as the nearest
analogy for enlightenment we can find in everyday life: emptiness and
enjoyment; the practice of taking one’s lover as a divine teacher;
and the practical possibility of continuing to fall in love, in
perpetuity. This teaching also illuminates the causes of the problems
we often encounter within relationships: lack of fulfilment, failing
to meet our partner’s emotional needs; clinging, cruelty, and
indifference.

The
Body of Visions – the
rich and dramatic symbolism of inner Tantra

Thursdays,
5 week course, 19:00 –
20:30, 06 Nov – 04 Dec, £25

Explore tantric imagery, and practices of vision,
voice, mudra, and music. The peaceful, joyous, and wrathful
meditation beings cover every human body type – and in so doing,
release us from the bondage of societal sanction with regard to how
we appear.

Tibetan
Yoga – through
these movements Mind finds itself in its own free space.

Saturdays,
3 week course, 10 – 12, 11 – 24 October, £15

Tibetan
yoga (sKu-mNyé) is a system of physical movements which give rise to
profound sensations of intimacy with the elements, freeing us from
the domination of boredom; fear; neurotic obsession; paranoia; or
depression.

Weaving
the elements – release
neurosis into the skies of the elements